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Congratulations on a fair and realistic portrait of Cuba and Cubans [Cover Stories, Feb. 20]. As one who has traveled there and listened to Cubans' concerns, I can vouch for your assertion that they feel very misunderstood by Americans. The fact that one virtually never hears regrets expressed there about the revolution reflects the depth of misery suffered during the pre-Castro regimes...
...France and the Portrait, 1799-1870." This installation of works from the permanent collections explores the changing conventions and practice of portraiture in France between the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the Second Empire...
...Considering that this song has been previously released, its place on Hooker's latest album is a bit of a mystery. Nevertheless, this uppity anthem has lost none of its punch, as it tells the story of a man drinking and drugging a woman off his mind. Hardly the portrait of a healthy relationship, the tune is a perfect setting for Hooker to croon the lyric, "sitting here drinking/ getting stoned/ yeah, yeah," with all the conviction of a man who has lived and sung the blues for more than fifty years...
Consider, for instance, his portrait of a friend, the English writer Michael Podro. Its title is The Jewish Rider. The man sits in the compartment of a railway carriage. Its upholstery, its projecting headrests and Podro's clothes are rendered in broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through...
DIED. ART KANE, 69, photographer whose famous 1958 portrait of dozens of living jazz legends for Esquire is the subject of a new documentary; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Lancaster, Kentucky. The film, A Great Day in Harlem, has been nominated for an Oscar...